Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roman battering rams
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 15:46, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No sources presented. May be derived from a game Edison 06:48, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Go back to in the article history to the original text: "..Roman Battering rams were usually in the shape of a pentagonal prism. They were used for destroying big thinks such as walls or houses. They were immune to archery attack and very weak in defense against swordsman." and it is clearly either made up from scratch or from a game guide. Someone later tried to make it a little more factual, but still speculation. Wikipedia should not be a vehicle for propagating things someone made up, or to make speculation into fact to get mirrored and quoted.Edison 17:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge or Delete - If the information is valid (and not just from a game), it should be preserved, but not as a separate entry. If it is not historically accurate, purge it. --Willscrlt 15:13, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - factual accuracy in dispute; doesn't seem there is anything worth salvaging; already a decent article on battering rams.Glendoremus 19:29, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom and Glendoremus. I don't believe there was anything unique about Roman technology here. --Dhartung | Talk 21:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, several reconstructions in European museums show that rams were improvised in situ Alf photoman 13:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- keep They did exist, they are described in military writing of the period. Encourage the editor to find sources/DGG 00:24, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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